Edited by Kelly James Clark
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Renaissance in the Philosophy of Religion
Sources
Part One
ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction: Arguments for the Existence of God
Chapter 1. The Cosmological Argument
- Thomas Aquinas, “The
- Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz, “On the Ultimate Origination of Things”
- J.L. Mackie, “Cosmological Arguments”
- William Lane Craig, “The Kalaam Version of the Cosmological Argument”
- William Paley, “The Watch and the Watchmaker”
- David Hume, “Critique of the Argument from Design”
- Richard Dawkins, “The Blind Watchmaker”
- Michael Denton, “The Puzzle of Perfection”
- Robin Collins, “The Fine-Tuning Argument”
Chapter 3. Moral Arguments
- Plato, “Euthyphro”
- Robert Merrihew Adams, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief”
- Linda Zagzebski, “The Virtues of God and the Foundations of Ethics”
Chapter 4. Religious Experience
- William Alston, “Perceiving God”
Chapter 5. Naturalism Refuted?
- Alvin Plantinga, “The Self-Refutation of Naturalism”
Chapter 6. The Balance of Probabilities
- Richard Swinburne, “A Cumulative Case for the Existence of God”
- J.L. Mackie, “The Balance of Probabilities”
- Alvin Plantinga, “Arguing for God”
- William J. Wainwright, “The Nature of Reason”
Part Two
REASON AND BELIEF IN GOD
Introduction: Reason and Belief in God
Chapter 7. The Need for Evidence
- W.K. Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief”
"A Right to be Wrong," Allen Stairs http://brindedcow.umd.edu/philosophy/opinions.html
Chapter 8. Wittgensteinian Fideism
- Norman Malcolm, “The Groundlessness of Belief”
- Kai Nielsen, “Religion and Groundless Believing”
Chapter 9. Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief
- Blaise Pascal, “The Wager”
- William James, “The Will to Believe”
Chapter 10. Reformed Epistemology
- Kelly James Clark, “Without Evidence or Argument”
- Phil L. Quinn, “On Finding the Foundations of Theism”
Suggestions for Further Study
Part Three
GOD AND HUMAN SUFFERING
Introduction The Problem of Evil
Chapter 11. The Problem Stated
- David Hume, “God and Evil”
Chapter 12. Theodicy
- John Hick, “The Soul-Making Theodicy”
- Marilyn McCord Adams, “Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God”
Chapter 13. The Evidential Problem of Evil
- William Rowe, “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism”
"A Tale of 12 Officers," Mark Vuletic http://www.vuletic.com/hume/at/12.html
- Daniel Howard-Snyder, “Rowe’s Argument from Particular Horrors”
Part Four
CRITIQUES OF GOD
Introduction: Critiques of God
Chapter 14. The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
- Karl Marx, “The Opium of the Masses”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, “Religion as Resentment”
- Sigmund Freud, “The Future of an Illusion”
- “A Humanist Manifesto”
Part Five
PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY
Introduction: Philosophical Theology
Chapter 16. Does God Suffer?
- Johan Scotus Eriugena, “Divine Impassibility”
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, "Suffering Love"
Chapter 17. Prayer
- Thomas Aquinas, “Whether It Is Becoming to Pray?”
- Eleonore Stump, “Petitionary Prayer”
Chapter 18. Is There a Hell?
- Stephen T. Davis, “Universalism, Hell and the Fate of the Ignorant”
- Marilyn McCord Adams, “The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians”
Chapter 19. Religious Pluralism
- John Hick, “The Philosophy of Religious Pluralism”
- Peter van Inwagen, “Non Est Hick”
Chapter 20. Feminist Theology
- Patricia Altenbernd Johnson, “Feminist Christian Philosophy?”
Suggestions for Further Study
Part Six
ASIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Introduction: Asian Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 21. The Sources
- The Upanishads
- The Life of the Buddha
Chapter 22. Buddhist Philosophy of Religion
- Bimal K. Matilal, “Mysticism and Reality: Ineffability”
- Edward Conze, “Buddhist Philosophy and Its European Parallels”
Chapter 23. Taoism
- Lao Tzu, “The Tao Te Ching”
- T’ang Chün-I, “Spiritual Values in Taoism”
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